Agreed, new ways of ordering thoughts online is an awesome opportunity on LessWrong!
Foot notes: I’d say we already have quite a strong Roam-style organization in the hover pop-ups of LessWrong post links but as you say, it would be very nice to have a version of that for foot-notes, given their disparate nature.
Collapsible boxes: Having “fact boxes” as expandable interactive elements seems like a very good idea as well and relatively cheap to implement. I recommend looking at e.g. Hugo XML syntax for these things (XML is a pain, you can probably figure a better writing UX out).
Interactive documents: I’m more for the Obsidian thought representation but the hierarchy in Roam is quite relevant for communicating thoughts to others. I think a strong representation of this is quite relevant and might be an in-line, minimalist, recursive “collapsible box” as described above.
Ah, yeah link previews are good. I guess the problem with LW’s ones that they’re difficult to find out about on mobile, the user has to figure out to click and hold, then close the browser popup. I prefer gwern’s way, where clicking a link on mobile will only open the preview, and you have to click again to traverse the link. Others have complained about that, though.
Agreed, new ways of ordering thoughts online is an awesome opportunity on LessWrong!
Foot notes: I’d say we already have quite a strong Roam-style organization in the hover pop-ups of LessWrong post links but as you say, it would be very nice to have a version of that for foot-notes, given their disparate nature.
Collapsible boxes: Having “fact boxes” as expandable interactive elements seems like a very good idea as well and relatively cheap to implement. I recommend looking at e.g. Hugo XML syntax for these things (XML is a pain, you can probably figure a better writing UX out).
Interactive documents: I’m more for the Obsidian thought representation but the hierarchy in Roam is quite relevant for communicating thoughts to others. I think a strong representation of this is quite relevant and might be an in-line, minimalist, recursive “collapsible box” as described above.
Ah, yeah link previews are good. I guess the problem with LW’s ones that they’re difficult to find out about on mobile, the user has to figure out to click and hold, then close the browser popup. I prefer gwern’s way, where clicking a link on mobile will only open the preview, and you have to click again to traverse the link. Others have complained about that, though.
I mostly use it from the computer so that missed me but it seems like a very good idea as well!